"A History of English Prose Fiction"
by Bayard Tuckerman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Tuckerman, Bayard, 1855-1923
- Title
- A History of English Prose Fiction
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Lynn Bornath, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- English fiction -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 15350
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15350
- Release Date
- March 13, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE FICTION
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I. — THE ROMANCE OF CHIVALRY. — I — II.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — CHAUCER. POPULAR TALES. MORE'S "UTOPIA."
- 6.CHAPTER III. — THE AGE OF ELIZABETH: LYLY, GREENE, LODGE, SIDNEY. — I. — II.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — THE PURITANS. BUNYAN'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." — I. — II.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — THE RESTORATION. ROGER BOYLE. MRS. MANLEY. MRS. BEHN. — I. — II.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I.—ENGLAND UNDER ANNE AND THE FIRST TWO GEORGES. II.—SWIFT, ADDISON, DEFOE. III.—RICHARDSON, FIELDING, SMOLLETT. — I. — II. — III.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTINUED. I.—THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. II.—STERNE, JOHNSON, GOLDSMITH, AND OTHERS. III.—MISS BURNEY, AND THE FEMALE NOVELISTS. IV.—THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — I.—THE NOVEL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. II.—THE NOVEL OF LIFE AND MANNERS. III.—OF SCOTCH LIFE. IV.—OF IRISH LIFE. V.—OF ENGLISH LIFE. VI.—OF AMERICAN LIFE. VII.—THE HISTORICAL NOVEL. VIII.—THE NOVEL OF PURPOSE. IX.—THE NOVEL OF FANCY. X.—USE AND ABUSE OF FICTION. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X.
- 12.INDEX.
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